Bill Text: IL HB0016 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Allows children who have attended preschool and will attain the age of 5 years on or before December 1 of the year of the 2009-2010 school term and each school term thereafter to attend school upon commencement of such term (now, a child must attain age 5 on or before September 1). Makes related changes. Effective July 1, 2009.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-17 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0893 [HB0016 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB0016-Enrolled.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | ||||||
5 | 2-3.62, 2-3.105, 3-0.01, 3-1, 3-2.5, 3-12, 3-14.2, 3-15.10, and | ||||||
6 | 3A-6 and by adding Section 4-12 as follows:
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7 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
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8 | Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
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9 | (a) A regional network of educational service centers shall | ||||||
10 | be established
by the State Board of Education to coordinate | ||||||
11 | and combine existing services in
a manner which is practical | ||||||
12 | and efficient and to provide new services to
schools as | ||||||
13 | provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
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14 | centers shall include the planning, implementation and | ||||||
15 | evaluation of:
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16 | (1) (blank);
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17 | (2) computer technology education;
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18 | (3) mathematics, science and reading resources for | ||||||
19 | teachers including
continuing education, inservice | ||||||
20 | training and staff development.
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21 | The centers may provide training, technical assistance, | ||||||
22 | coordination and
planning in other program areas such as school | ||||||
23 | improvement, school
accountability, financial planning, |
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1 | consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood | ||||||
2 | education, alcohol/drug
education and prevention, family life - | ||||||
3 | sex education, electronic transmission
of data from school | ||||||
4 | districts to the State, alternative education and regional
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5 | special education, and telecommunications systems that provide | ||||||
6 | distance
learning. Such telecommunications systems may be | ||||||
7 | obtained through the
Department of Central Management Services | ||||||
8 | pursuant to Section 405-270 of the
Department of Central | ||||||
9 | Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and | ||||||
10 | services of educational
service centers may be offered to | ||||||
11 | private school teachers and private school
students within each | ||||||
12 | service center area provided public schools have already
been | ||||||
13 | afforded adequate access to such programs and services.
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14 | Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office, | ||||||
15 | disqualification for office, resignation from office, or | ||||||
16 | expiration of the current term of office of the regional | ||||||
17 | superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, centers | ||||||
18 | serving that portion of a Class II county school unit outside | ||||||
19 | of a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants shall have and | ||||||
20 | exercise, in and with respect to each educational service | ||||||
21 | region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants and | ||||||
22 | in and with respect to each school district located in any such | ||||||
23 | educational service region, all of the rights, powers, duties, | ||||||
24 | and responsibilities theretofore vested by law in and exercised | ||||||
25 | and performed by the regional superintendent of schools for | ||||||
26 | that area under the provisions of this Code or any other laws |
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1 | of this State. | ||||||
2 | The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and | ||||||
3 | regulations necessary
to implement this Section. The rules | ||||||
4 | shall include detailed standards which
delineate the scope and | ||||||
5 | specific content of programs to be provided by each
Educational | ||||||
6 | Service Center, as well as the specific planning, | ||||||
7 | implementation
and evaluation services to be provided by each | ||||||
8 | Center relative to its programs.
The Board shall also provide | ||||||
9 | the standards by which it will evaluate the
programs provided | ||||||
10 | by each Center.
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11 | (b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be | ||||||
12 | governed by an
11-member board, 3 members of which shall be | ||||||
13 | public school teachers
nominated by the local bargaining | ||||||
14 | representatives to the appropriate regional
superintendent for | ||||||
15 | appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be
from | ||||||
16 | each of the following categories, including but not limited to
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17 | superintendents, regional superintendents, school board | ||||||
18 | members
and a representative of an institution of higher | ||||||
19 | education. The members of
the board shall be appointed by the | ||||||
20 | regional superintendents whose school
districts are served by | ||||||
21 | the educational service center.
The composition of the board | ||||||
22 | will reflect the revisions of this
amendatory Act of 1989 as | ||||||
23 | the terms of office of current members expire.
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24 | (c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to | ||||||
25 | assure delivery
of services to all local school districts in | ||||||
26 | the State.
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1 | (d) From monies appropriated for this program the State | ||||||
2 | Board of
Education shall provide grants to qualifying | ||||||
3 | Educational Service Centers
applying for such grants in | ||||||
4 | accordance with rules and regulations
promulgated by the State | ||||||
5 | Board of Education to implement this Section.
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6 | (e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional | ||||||
7 | educational service
centers shall appoint a family life - sex | ||||||
8 | education advisory board
consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2 | ||||||
9 | school administrators, 2 school
board members, 2 health care | ||||||
10 | professionals, one library system
representative, and the | ||||||
11 | director of the regional educational service center
who shall | ||||||
12 | serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed. | ||||||
13 | Members
of the family life - sex education advisory boards | ||||||
14 | shall serve without
compensation. Each of the advisory boards | ||||||
15 | appointed pursuant to this
subsection shall develop a plan for | ||||||
16 | regional teacher-parent family life - sex
education training | ||||||
17 | sessions and shall file a written report of such plan
with the | ||||||
18 | governing board of their regional educational service center. | ||||||
19 | The
directors of each of the regional educational service
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20 | centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports | ||||||
21 | submitted by the
advisory boards and combine those reports into | ||||||
22 | a single written report which
they shall file with the Citizens | ||||||
23 | Council on School Problems prior to the
end of the regular | ||||||
24 | school term of the 1987-1988 school year.
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25 | (f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I | ||||||
26 | county school units
shall be disbanded on the first Monday of |
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1 | August, 1995, and their statutory
responsibilities and | ||||||
2 | programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of
education, | ||||||
3 | subject to rules and regulations developed by
the
State Board | ||||||
4 | of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected | ||||||
5 | by
the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as | ||||||
6 | the chief
administrators for these programs and services. By | ||||||
7 | rule of the State Board of
Education, the 10 educational | ||||||
8 | service regions of
lowest
population shall provide such | ||||||
9 | services under cooperative agreements with larger
regions.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07 .)
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11 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.105) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.105)
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12 | Sec. 2-3.105. Services to educational service regions and | ||||||
13 | school districts. Commencing July 1, 1994 and thereafter, the | ||||||
14 | State Board of Education through
the office of the State | ||||||
15 | Superintendent of Education shall have and exercise, in
and | ||||||
16 | with respect to an each educational service region located in a | ||||||
17 | city of 500,000 having a population of
2,000,000 or more | ||||||
18 | inhabitants, and in and with respect to each school district
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19 | located in any such educational service region, all rights, | ||||||
20 | powers, duties and
responsibilities theretofore vested in and | ||||||
21 | exercised and performed by the
regional superintendent of | ||||||
22 | schools in that educational service region under the
provisions | ||||||
23 | of this Act or any other law of this State.
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24 | (Source: P.A. 87-654; 87-895; 87-1251.)
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1 | (105 ILCS 5/3-0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-0.01)
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2 | Sec. 3-0.01.
"County superintendent of schools" and
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3 | "regional superintendent of schools" defined - Application of | ||||||
4 | Article.
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5 | (a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b), after | ||||||
6 | the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, the chief | ||||||
7 | administrative
officer of an educational service region shall | ||||||
8 | be designated and referred
to as the "regional superintendent | ||||||
9 | of schools" or the "regional
superintendent" and after the | ||||||
10 | effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993
the office held | ||||||
11 | by the chief administrative officer shall be designated and
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12 | referred to as the "regional office of education". For purposes | ||||||
13 | of the School
Code and except as otherwise provided by | ||||||
14 | subsection (b), any reference to
"county superintendent of | ||||||
15 | schools" or "county superintendent" means the
regional | ||||||
16 | superintendent of schools.
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17 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, | ||||||
18 | but subject Subject to subsection (b-1), in educational service | ||||||
19 | regions containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the office of | ||||||
20 | regional superintendent of schools
is abolished on July 1, | ||||||
21 | 1994 . Subject to Section 2-3.105 of this Code, beginning on the | ||||||
22 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
23 | Assembly, On and after that date in each educational
service | ||||||
24 | region in which the office of regional superintendent of | ||||||
25 | schools is so
abolished all rights, powers, duties and | ||||||
26 | responsibilities theretofore vested by
law in, and exercised |
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1 | and performed by the regional superintendent of schools
and by | ||||||
2 | any assistant regional superintendents or other assistants or | ||||||
3 | employees
in the office of the regional superintendent of | ||||||
4 | schools being so abolished shall be
vested in, exercised and | ||||||
5 | performed by educational service centers established pursuant | ||||||
6 | to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for any educational service | ||||||
7 | region containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants. Beginning on | ||||||
8 | the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
9 | Assembly, the State Board of Education through the
office of | ||||||
10 | the State Superintendent of Education. Upon abolition of the | ||||||
11 | office
of regional superintendent of schools in an educational | ||||||
12 | service region
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants: (i) | ||||||
13 | all books, records, maps, papers
and other documents belonging | ||||||
14 | to or subject to the control or disposition of
the former | ||||||
15 | regional superintendent of schools by virtue of his office | ||||||
16 | shall be
transferred and delivered to the State Board of | ||||||
17 | Education; (ii) possession or
control over all moneys, deposits | ||||||
18 | and accounts in the possession or
subject to the control or | ||||||
19 | disposition of the former regional superintendent
of schools by | ||||||
20 | virtue of his office, including but not limited to
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21 | undistributed or unexpended moneys drawn from, and all amounts | ||||||
22 | on deposit
in, the county, institute and supervisory expense | ||||||
23 | funds, shall be
transferred to and placed under the control and | ||||||
24 | disposition of the State Board
of Education, excepting only | ||||||
25 | those moneys or accounts, if any, the source of
which is the | ||||||
26 | county treasury , for proper redistribution to the educational |
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1 | service centers ; and (iii) all other equipment, furnishings,
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2 | supplies and other personal property belonging to or subject to | ||||||
3 | the control or
disposition of the former regional | ||||||
4 | superintendent of schools by virtue of his
office, excepting | ||||||
5 | only those items which were provided by the county board,
shall | ||||||
6 | be transferred and delivered to the State Board of Education. | ||||||
7 | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
8 | 96th General Assembly From and
after July 1, 1994 , any | ||||||
9 | reference in this the School Code or any other law of this
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10 | State to "regional superintendent of schools" or "regional | ||||||
11 | superintendent", or
"county superintendent of schools" or | ||||||
12 | "county superintendent" shall mean, with
respect to any | ||||||
13 | educational service region containing 2,000,000 or more
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14 | inhabitants in which the office of regional superintendent of | ||||||
15 | schools is
abolished, the educational service centers | ||||||
16 | established pursuant to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for the | ||||||
17 | educational service region State Board of Education serving | ||||||
18 | through the office of the State
Superintendent of Education as | ||||||
19 | the chief administrative entity of an
educational service | ||||||
20 | region . Upon and after the first Monday of August 1995,
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21 | references in this Code and elsewhere to educational service | ||||||
22 | regions of
2,000,000 or fewer inhabitants shall exclude any | ||||||
23 | educational service region
containing a city of 500,000 or more | ||||||
24 | inhabitants and references in this Code
and elsewhere to | ||||||
25 | educational service regions of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants
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26 | shall mean an educational service region containing a city of |
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1 | 500,000 or more
inhabitants regardless of the actual population | ||||||
2 | of the region.
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3 | (b-1) References to "regional superintendent" shall also | ||||||
4 | include the educational service centers established under | ||||||
5 | Section 2-3.62 of this Code and
regional superintendent of | ||||||
6 | schools in regions serving that portion of a Class
II county | ||||||
7 | outside a city of 500,000 or more population elected at the | ||||||
8 | general
election in 1994 and every 4 years thereafter.
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9 | (c) This Article applies to the regional superintendent of | ||||||
10 | a multicounty
educational service region formed under Article | ||||||
11 | 3A as well as to a single
county or partial county region, | ||||||
12 | except that in case of conflict between
the provisions of this | ||||||
13 | Article and of Article 3A in the case of a multicounty
region, | ||||||
14 | the provisions of Article 3A shall apply. Any reference to | ||||||
15 | "county" or
to "educational service region" in this Article | ||||||
16 | means a regional office of
education.
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17 | (Source: P.A. 87-654; 87-895; 87-1251; 88-89.)
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18 | (105 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-1)
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19 | Sec. 3-1. Election; eligibility. Quadrennially there shall | ||||||
20 | be
elected in every county, except those which have been | ||||||
21 | consolidated into
a multicounty educational service region | ||||||
22 | under Article 3A and except
those having a population of | ||||||
23 | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, and beginning in
1994 in that | ||||||
24 | portion of a Class II county outside a city of 500,000 or more
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25 | inhabitants and constituting an educational service region, a |
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1 | regional
superintendent of schools, who shall enter
upon the | ||||||
2 | discharge of his duties on the first Monday of August next | ||||||
3 | after
his election; provided, however, that the term of office | ||||||
4 | of each regional
superintendent of schools in office on June | ||||||
5 | 30, 2003
is terminated on
July 1, 2003, except that an | ||||||
6 | incumbent regional
superintendent of schools
shall continue to | ||||||
7 | serve until his successor is elected and qualified, and each
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8 | regional superintendent of schools elected at the general | ||||||
9 | election in 2002 and
every four years thereafter shall assume | ||||||
10 | office on the first day of July
next after his election. No one | ||||||
11 | is eligible to file his petition at any
primary election for | ||||||
12 | the nomination
as candidate for the office of regional | ||||||
13 | superintendent of schools nor to
enter upon the duties of such | ||||||
14 | office either by election or appointment
unless he possesses | ||||||
15 | the following qualifications: (1) he is of good
character, (2) | ||||||
16 | he has a master's degree, (3) he has earned at least 20
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17 | semester hours of credit in professional education at the | ||||||
18 | graduate
level, (4) he holds a valid all grade supervisory | ||||||
19 | certificate or a valid
state limited supervisory certificate, | ||||||
20 | or a valid state life supervisory
certificate, or a valid | ||||||
21 | administrative certificate, (5) he has had at least
4 years | ||||||
22 | experience in teaching, and (6) he was engaged for at least 2 | ||||||
23 | years
of the 4 previous years in full time teaching or | ||||||
24 | supervising in the common
public schools or serving as a county | ||||||
25 | superintendent of schools or regional
superintendent of | ||||||
26 | schools for an educational service region in the State of
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1 | Illinois.
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2 | No petition of any candidate for nomination for the office | ||||||
3 | of regional
superintendent of schools may be filed and no such | ||||||
4 | candidate's name may be
placed on a primary or general election | ||||||
5 | ballot, unless such candidate files
as part of his petition a | ||||||
6 | certificate from the State Board of Education
certifying that | ||||||
7 | from the records of its office such candidate has the
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8 | qualifications required by this Section; however, any | ||||||
9 | incumbent filing his
petition for nomination for a succeeding | ||||||
10 | term of office shall not be
required to attach such certificate | ||||||
11 | to his petition of candidacy.
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12 | Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid | ||||||
13 | unless the
candidate named therein files with the county clerk | ||||||
14 | or State Board of
Elections a statement of economic interests | ||||||
15 | as required by the Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act. Such | ||||||
16 | receipt shall be so filed either previously
during the calendar | ||||||
17 | year in which his nomination papers were filed or
within the | ||||||
18 | period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
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19 | the general election law.
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20 | The changes in qualifications made by Public Act 76-1563 do | ||||||
21 | not affect
the right of an incumbent to seek reelection.
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22 | On and after July 1, 1994, the provisions of this Section | ||||||
23 | shall have
no application in any educational service region | ||||||
24 | having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants; provided | ||||||
25 | further that no election shall be
held in November of 1994 or | ||||||
26 | at any other time after July 1, 1992 for the office
of regional |
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1 | superintendent of schools in any county or educational service
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2 | region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 89-383, eff. 8-18-95; 90-280, eff. 7-31-97.)
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4 | (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
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5 | Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
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6 | (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
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7 | regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | services an annual
salary according to the population, as | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | determined by the last preceding federal
census, of the region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | they serve, as set out in the following schedule:
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18 | The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | that the
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | regional superintendents of
schools during each of their | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | elected terms of office that
commence after
July 26, 1989 and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | before the first Monday of August, 1995.
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24 | The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual salary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | that
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for |
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1 | their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by the | ||||||
2 | regional superintendents of schools
during their elected terms | ||||||
3 | of office that
commence after August 4,
1995 and end on August | ||||||
4 | 1, 1999.
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5 | The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General | ||||||
6 | Assembly in the
annual salary that the regional superintendents | ||||||
7 | of schools shall receive for
their services shall apply to the | ||||||
8 | annual salary received by the regional
superintendents of | ||||||
9 | schools during each of their elected terms of office that
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10 | commence on or after August 2, 1999.
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11 | Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional | ||||||
12 | superintendent
of schools receives for his or her services | ||||||
13 | shall be adjusted annually to
reflect the percentage increase, | ||||||
14 | if any, in the most recent Consumer Price
Index, as defined and | ||||||
15 | officially reported by the United States Department of
Labor, | ||||||
16 | Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that no annual increment may | ||||||
17 | exceed
2.9%. If the percentage of change in the
Consumer Price | ||||||
18 | Index is a percentage decrease, the salary that the regional
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19 | superintendent of schools receives shall not be adjusted for | ||||||
20 | that year.
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21 | When regional superintendents are authorized by the School | ||||||
22 | Code to
appoint assistant regional superintendents, the | ||||||
23 | assistant regional
superintendent shall receive an annual | ||||||
24 | salary based on his or her
qualifications and computed as a | ||||||
25 | percentage of the salary of the
regional superintendent to whom | ||||||
26 | he or she is assistant, as set out in the
following schedule:
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15 | However, in any region in which the appointment of more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | than one
assistant regional superintendent is authorized, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | whether by Section
3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | than one assistant may
be compensated at the 90% rate and any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | other assistant shall be paid at
not exceeding the 75% rate, in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | each case depending on the qualifications
of the assistant.
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21 | The salaries provided in this Section for regional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | superintendents
and assistant regional superintendents are | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | payable monthly from the
Common School Fund. The State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Comptroller in making his or her warrant to
any county for the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | amount due it from the Common School Fund shall deduct
from it | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | the several amounts for which warrants have been issued to the
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1 | regional superintendent, and any assistant regional | ||||||
2 | superintendent, of
the educational service region encompassing | ||||||
3 | the county since the
preceding apportionment of the Common | ||||||
4 | School Fund.
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5 | County boards may provide for additional compensation for | ||||||
6 | the
regional superintendent or the assistant regional | ||||||
7 | superintendents, or
for each of them, to be paid quarterly from | ||||||
8 | the county treasury.
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9 | (b) Upon abolition on July 1, 1994, of the office of | ||||||
10 | regional
superintendent of schools in educational service | ||||||
11 | regions containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided in | ||||||
12 | Section 3-0.01
of this Code, the funds provided under | ||||||
13 | provisions of subsection (a) of this Section shall continue to | ||||||
14 | be appropriated and reallocated, as provided for pursuant to | ||||||
15 | subsection (b) of Section 3-0.01 of this Code, to the | ||||||
16 | educational service centers established pursuant to Section | ||||||
17 | 2-3.62 of this Code for an educational service region | ||||||
18 | containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants shall
no longer apply | ||||||
19 | in any educational service region in which the office of
| ||||||
20 | regional superintendent of schools is so abolished, and no | ||||||
21 | salary or other
compensation shall be payable under that | ||||||
22 | subsection (a) or under any other
provision of this Section | ||||||
23 | with respect to the office so abolished or
with respect to any | ||||||
24 | assistant position to the office so abolished .
| ||||||
25 | (c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee | ||||||
26 | contributions
required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Pension Code for employees of the
State Board of Education, it | ||||||
2 | shall also pay the employee contributions required
of regional | ||||||
3 | superintendents of schools and assistant regional | ||||||
4 | superintendents
of schools on the same basis, but excluding any | ||||||
5 | contributions based on
compensation that is paid by the county | ||||||
6 | rather than the State.
| ||||||
7 | This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on | ||||||
8 | payments of salary
earned after the effective date of this | ||||||
9 | amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly, except that in the | ||||||
10 | case of an elected regional superintendent of
schools, this | ||||||
11 | subsection does not apply to contributions based on payments of
| ||||||
12 | salary earned during a term of office that commenced before the | ||||||
13 | effective date
of this amendatory Act.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 91-276, eff. 7-23-99 .)
| ||||||
15 | (105 ILCS 5/3-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-12)
| ||||||
16 | Sec. 3-12. Institute fund. | ||||||
17 | (a) All certificate
registration fees and
a portion of | ||||||
18 | renewal and duplicate fees
shall be kept by the regional | ||||||
19 | superintendent as described in Section 21-16 of
this Code, | ||||||
20 | together with a record of the
names of the persons paying them. | ||||||
21 | Such fees shall be deposited
into the institute fund and
shall | ||||||
22 | be used by the regional superintendent
to defray expenses | ||||||
23 | associated with the
work of
the regional professional | ||||||
24 | development review committees established pursuant to
| ||||||
25 | paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of Section 21-14 of this Code |
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1 | to advise the
regional
superintendent, upon his or her request, | ||||||
2 | and to hear appeals relating to the
renewal of
teaching | ||||||
3 | certificates, in accordance with Section 21-14 of this Code; to | ||||||
4 | defray
expenses
connected with improving the technology | ||||||
5 | necessary for the efficient processing
of
certificates; to | ||||||
6 | defray all costs associated with the administration of teaching | ||||||
7 | certificates;
to defray expenses incidental to
teachers' | ||||||
8 | institutes,
workshops or meetings of a professional nature that | ||||||
9 | are designed to promote the
professional growth of teachers or | ||||||
10 | for the purpose of defraying the expense of
any general or | ||||||
11 | special meeting of teachers or school personnel of the region,
| ||||||
12 | which has been approved by the regional superintendent.
| ||||||
13 | (b) In addition to the use of moneys in the institute fund | ||||||
14 | to defray expenses under subsection (a) of this Section, the | ||||||
15 | State Superintendent of Education, as authorized under Section | ||||||
16 | 2-3.105 of this Code, shall use moneys in the institute fund to | ||||||
17 | defray all costs associated with the administration of teaching | ||||||
18 | certificates within a city having a population exceeding | ||||||
19 | 500,000.
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20 | (c) The regional superintendent shall on or before January | ||||||
21 | 1 of each year
publish in a newspaper of general circulation | ||||||
22 | published in the region or
shall post in each school building | ||||||
23 | under his jurisdiction an accounting of
(1) the balance on hand | ||||||
24 | in the Institute fund at the beginning of the
previous year; | ||||||
25 | (2) all receipts within the previous year deposited in the
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26 | fund, with the sources from which they were derived; (3) the |
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| |||||||
1 | amount
distributed from the fund and the purposes for which | ||||||
2 | such distributions
were made; and (4) the balance on hand in | ||||||
3 | the fund.
| ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 94-839, eff. 6-6-06.)
| ||||||
5 | (105 ILCS 5/3-14.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.2)
| ||||||
6 | Sec. 3-14.2. Supervision and control of school districts. | ||||||
7 | Except in regions established within that portion of a Class II | ||||||
8 | county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more | ||||||
9 | inhabitants, the The county superintendent of schools shall | ||||||
10 | exercise supervision and
control over all school districts | ||||||
11 | within the county. If a district is
divided by a county line or | ||||||
12 | lines the county superintendent in the
county where the | ||||||
13 | majority of the children attend school
at the time the district | ||||||
14 | is organized
shall exercise supervision and control over all | ||||||
15 | aspects of
supervision, reports, and financial accounting of | ||||||
16 | the district
until it has been determined by the State | ||||||
17 | Superintendent of Education that
60 per cent of the children | ||||||
18 | attend school in another county or that a majority
of the | ||||||
19 | children have attended a school in another county for three
| ||||||
20 | consecutive years and the school board has adopted a resolution | ||||||
21 | requesting
the supervision and control be transferred to the | ||||||
22 | county superintendent
in the county in which the majority of | ||||||
23 | children attend school.
The county superintendent under
whose | ||||||
24 | direction a school district has been established shall retain
| ||||||
25 | supervision and control until July 1 following the date of the |
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1 | election
establishing the district. Whenever a change in | ||||||
2 | supervision and control
shall result from a change in school | ||||||
3 | district boundaries, population
shifts, or other cause, such | ||||||
4 | change in supervision and control shall not
be effective until | ||||||
5 | July 1 following the date of its determination. All
references | ||||||
6 | to the county superintendent of schools, in relation to
school | ||||||
7 | districts, in this Act shall be interpreted to mean the county
| ||||||
8 | superintendent of schools having supervision and control of the | ||||||
9 | district
or districts as defined in this Section.
| ||||||
10 | (Source: P.A. 81-1146.)
| ||||||
11 | (105 ILCS 5/3-15.10) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-15.10)
| ||||||
12 | Sec. 3-15.10. Assistant Regional Superintendent. To | ||||||
13 | employ, in counties or
regions of 2,000,000 inhabitants or | ||||||
14 | less, in addition to any assistants
authorized to be employed | ||||||
15 | with the approval of the county board, an assistant
regional | ||||||
16 | superintendent of schools who shall be a person of good | ||||||
17 | attainment,
versed in the principles and methods of education, | ||||||
18 | and qualified to teach and
supervise schools under Article 21 | ||||||
19 | of this Act; to fix the term of such
assistant and direct his | ||||||
20 | work and define his duties. On the effective date of this | ||||||
21 | amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, in In regions | ||||||
22 | established
within that portion of a Class II county school | ||||||
23 | unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more
inhabitants, the | ||||||
24 | employment of all persons serving as assistant county or | ||||||
25 | regional superintendents of schools is terminated, the |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | position of assistant regional superintendent of schools in | ||||||
2 | each such region is abolished, and this Section shall, | ||||||
3 | beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
4 | 96th General Assembly, have no further application in the | ||||||
5 | educational service region the regional superintendent may | ||||||
6 | employ, in addition to any
assistants authorized to be employed | ||||||
7 | with the approval of the county board, 3
assistant regional | ||||||
8 | superintendents of schools. Until July 1, 1994, in counties
or | ||||||
9 | regions having a population of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants | ||||||
10 | the regional
superintendent may employ, in addition to any | ||||||
11 | assistants authorized to be
employed with the approval of the | ||||||
12 | county board, 11 assistant regional
superintendents of | ||||||
13 | schools . Assistant regional superintendents shall each be a
| ||||||
14 | person of good attainment, versed in the principles and methods | ||||||
15 | of education,
and qualified to teach and supervise schools | ||||||
16 | under Article 21 of this Act. The
work of such assistant | ||||||
17 | regional superintendent shall be so arranged and
directed that | ||||||
18 | the county or regional superintendent and assistant
| ||||||
19 | superintendent, together, shall devote an amount of time during | ||||||
20 | the school
year, equal to at least the full time of one | ||||||
21 | individual, to the supervision of
schools and of teaching in | ||||||
22 | the schools of the county.
| ||||||
23 | Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Section, any | ||||||
24 | person who,
on July 1, 1955, was employed as an assistant | ||||||
25 | county superintendent of
schools shall be qualified for that | ||||||
26 | position if he holds a state
certificate valid for teaching and |
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| |||||||
1 | supervising.
| ||||||
2 | On July 1, 1994, the employment of all persons serving as | ||||||
3 | assistant
county or regional superintendents in any county or | ||||||
4 | educational service
region having a population of more than | ||||||
5 | 2,000,000 inhabitants is
terminated, the office of assistant | ||||||
6 | county or regional superintendent in
each such county or | ||||||
7 | educational service region is abolished, and this Section
| ||||||
8 | shall, from and after July 1, 1994, have no further application | ||||||
9 | in any
such county or educational service region.
| ||||||
10 | A regional superintendent of schools shall not employ his | ||||||
11 | or her spouse,
child, stepchild, or
relative as an assistant | ||||||
12 | regional superintendent of schools.
By September 1 each year, a | ||||||
13 | regional superintendent shall certify to the State
Board of | ||||||
14 | Education
that he or she
has complied with this paragraph.
If | ||||||
15 | the State Board of Education becomes aware of the fact that a | ||||||
16 | regional
superintendent is employing his or her spouse, child, | ||||||
17 | stepchild, or relative as
an assistant regional | ||||||
18 | superintendent, the State Board of Education shall not
request | ||||||
19 | for payment from the State Comptroller any warrants for the | ||||||
20 | payment of
the assistant regional superintendent's salary. In | ||||||
21 | this paragraph, "relative"
means a grandparent, parent, aunt, | ||||||
22 | uncle, sibling, first cousin, nephew, niece,
grandchild, or | ||||||
23 | spouse of one of these persons. This paragraph applies only to
| ||||||
24 | contracts for employment entered into on or after the effective | ||||||
25 | date of this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
| ||||||
26 | (Source: P.A. 91-764, eff. 6-9-00.)
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1 | (105 ILCS 5/3A-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 3A-6)
| ||||||
2 | Sec. 3A-6. Election of Superintendent for consolidated | ||||||
3 | region - Bond -
Vacancies in any educational service region. | ||||||
4 | (a) The regional superintendent to be
elected under Section | ||||||
5 | 3A-5 shall be elected at the time provided in the general
| ||||||
6 | election law and must possess the qualifications described in | ||||||
7 | Section 3-1 of
this Act.
| ||||||
8 | (b) The bond required under Section 3-2 shall be filed in | ||||||
9 | the office of
the
county clerk in the county where the regional | ||||||
10 | office is situated, and a
certified copy of that bond shall be | ||||||
11 | filed in the office of the county clerk
in each of the other | ||||||
12 | counties in the region.
| ||||||
13 | (c) When a vacancy occurs in the office of regional | ||||||
14 | superintendent of
schools of any educational service region | ||||||
15 | which is not located in a county
which is a home rule unit, | ||||||
16 | such vacancy shall be filled within 60 days (i)
by appointment | ||||||
17 | of the chairman of the county board, with the advice and
| ||||||
18 | consent of the county board, when such vacancy occurs in a | ||||||
19 | single county
educational service region; or (ii) by | ||||||
20 | appointment of a committee composed
of the chairmen of the | ||||||
21 | county boards of those counties comprising the
affected | ||||||
22 | educational service region when such vacancy occurs in a
| ||||||
23 | multicounty educational service region, each committeeman to | ||||||
24 | be entitled to
one vote for each vote that was received in the | ||||||
25 | county represented by such
committeeman on the committee by the |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | regional superintendent of schools
whose office is vacant at | ||||||
2 | the last election at which a regional
superintendent was | ||||||
3 | elected to such office, and the person receiving the
highest | ||||||
4 | number of affirmative votes from the committeemen for such | ||||||
5 | vacant
office to be deemed the person appointed by such | ||||||
6 | committee to fill the
vacancy. The appointee shall be a member | ||||||
7 | of the same political party as the
regional superintendent of | ||||||
8 | schools the appointee succeeds was at the time
such regional | ||||||
9 | superintendent of schools last was elected. The appointee
shall | ||||||
10 | serve
for the remainder of the term. However, if more than 28 | ||||||
11 | months remain
in that term, the appointment shall be until the | ||||||
12 | next general election, at
which time the vacated office shall | ||||||
13 | be filled by election for the remainder
of the term. | ||||||
14 | Nominations shall be made and any vacancy in nomination
shall | ||||||
15 | be filled as follows:
| ||||||
16 | (1) If the vacancy in office occurs before the first | ||||||
17 | date
provided in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for | ||||||
18 | filing nomination
papers for county offices for the primary | ||||||
19 | in the next even-numbered year
following
commencement of | ||||||
20 | the term of office in which the vacancy
occurs, nominations | ||||||
21 | for the election for filling the vacancy shall be
made | ||||||
22 | pursuant to Article 7 of the Election Code.
| ||||||
23 | (2) If the vacancy in office occurs during the time | ||||||
24 | provided
in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for filing | ||||||
25 | nomination papers
for county offices for the primary in the | ||||||
26 | next even-numbered year following
commencement of the term |
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| |||||||
1 | of office in which the vacancy occurs,
the time for filing | ||||||
2 | nomination papers for the primary shall not be
more than 91 | ||||||
3 | days nor less than 85 days prior to the date of the
| ||||||
4 | primary.
| ||||||
5 | (3) If the vacancy in office occurs after the last day | ||||||
6 | provided
in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for filing | ||||||
7 | nomination papers for county
offices for the primary in the | ||||||
8 | next even-numbered year following commencement
of the term | ||||||
9 | of office in which the vacancy occurs, a
vacancy in | ||||||
10 | nomination shall be deemed to have occurred and the
county | ||||||
11 | central committee of each established political party (if | ||||||
12 | the
vacancy occurs in a single county educational service | ||||||
13 | region) or the
multi-county educational service region | ||||||
14 | committee of each
established political party (if the | ||||||
15 | vacancy occurs in a multi-county
educational service | ||||||
16 | region) shall nominate, by resolution, a
candidate to fill | ||||||
17 | the vacancy in nomination for election to the office
at the | ||||||
18 | general election. In the nomination proceedings to fill the
| ||||||
19 | vacancy in nomination, each member of the county central | ||||||
20 | committee or the
multi-county educational service region | ||||||
21 | committee,
whichever applies, shall have the voting | ||||||
22 | strength as set forth in Section 7-8
or 7-8.02 of the | ||||||
23 | Election Code, respectively. The name of the
candidate so | ||||||
24 | nominated shall not appear on the ballot at the general | ||||||
25 | primary
election. The vacancy in nomination shall be filled | ||||||
26 | prior to the date
of certification of candidates for the |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | general election.
| ||||||
2 | (4) The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be duly
| ||||||
3 | acknowledged before an officer qualified to take | ||||||
4 | acknowledgments
of deeds and shall include, upon its face, | ||||||
5 | the following information:
(A) the name of the original | ||||||
6 | nominee and the office vacated; (B) the
date on which the | ||||||
7 | vacancy occurred; and (C) the name and address
of the | ||||||
8 | nominee selected to fill the vacancy and the date of | ||||||
9 | selection.
The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be | ||||||
10 | accompanied by a
statement of candidacy, as prescribed in | ||||||
11 | Section 7-10 of the
Election Code, completed by the | ||||||
12 | selected nominee, a certificate
from the State Board of | ||||||
13 | Education, as prescribed in Section 3-1 of
this Code, and a | ||||||
14 | receipt indicating that the nominee has filed a
statement | ||||||
15 | of economic interests as required by the Illinois
| ||||||
16 | Governmental Ethics Act.
| ||||||
17 | The provisions of Sections 10-8 through 10-10.1 of the Election | ||||||
18 | Code
relating to objections to nomination papers, hearings on | ||||||
19 | objections, and
judicial review shall also apply to and govern | ||||||
20 | objections to nomination papers
and resolutions for filling | ||||||
21 | vacancies in nomination filed pursuant to this
Section. Unless | ||||||
22 | otherwise specified in this Section, the nomination and
| ||||||
23 | election provided for in this Section is governed by the | ||||||
24 | general election
law.
| ||||||
25 | Except as otherwise provided by applicable county | ||||||
26 | ordinance or by law, if
a vacancy occurs in the office of |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | regional superintendent of schools of an
educational service | ||||||
2 | region that is located in a county that is a home rule unit
and | ||||||
3 | that has a population of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, that | ||||||
4 | vacancy
shall be filled by the county board of such home rule | ||||||
5 | county.
| ||||||
6 | Until July 1, 2003 or until the regional superintendent of | ||||||
7 | schools elected
in
2002 takes office, whichever occurs first, | ||||||
8 | if a vacancy exists in the
office of regional
superintendent of | ||||||
9 | schools of an educational service region that is located
in a | ||||||
10 | county that is a home rule unit and that has a population of
| ||||||
11 | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, then that vacancy shall be | ||||||
12 | filled by the first
assistant superintendent/deputy | ||||||
13 | superintendent until the end of the
term to which the regional | ||||||
14 | superintendent was elected.
| ||||||
15 | Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of
| ||||||
16 | regional superintendent of schools of any educational service | ||||||
17 | region must
possess the qualifications required to be elected | ||||||
18 | to the position of
regional superintendent of schools, and | ||||||
19 | shall obtain a certificate of
eligibility from the State | ||||||
20 | Superintendent of Education and file same with
the county clerk | ||||||
21 | of the county in which the regional superintendent's office
is | ||||||
22 | located.
| ||||||
23 | If the regional superintendent of schools is called into | ||||||
24 | the active military
service of the United States, his office | ||||||
25 | shall not be deemed to be vacant,
but a temporary appointment | ||||||
26 | shall be made as in the case of a vacancy.
The appointee shall |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | perform all the duties of the regional superintendent
of | ||||||
2 | schools during the time the regional superintendent of schools | ||||||
3 | is in
the active military service of the United States, and | ||||||
4 | shall be paid the
same compensation apportioned as to the time | ||||||
5 | of service, and such appointment
and all authority thereunder | ||||||
6 | shall cease upon the discharge of the regional
superintendent | ||||||
7 | of schools from such active military service. The appointee
| ||||||
8 | shall give the same bond as is required of a regularly elected | ||||||
9 | regional
superintendent of schools.
| ||||||
10 | (Source: P.A. 92-277, eff. 8-7-01; 92-869, eff. 1-3-03.)
| ||||||
11 | (105 ILCS 5/4-12 new) | ||||||
12 | Sec. 4-12. Educational service center support. | ||||||
13 | Notwithstanding Sections 4-2, 4-4, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, and 4-10 | ||||||
14 | of this Code, a county having a population of 2,000,000 or more | ||||||
15 | inhabitants may provide financial or in-kind support to the | ||||||
16 | educational service centers serving that county.
| ||||||
17 | (105 ILCS 5/3A-17 rep.) | ||||||
18 | Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing Section | ||||||
19 | 3A-17.
| ||||||
20 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
21 | 2010.
|